The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

My Sister Belle [for the New York Saturday Press]

Campbell, Lizzie. "My Sister Belle [for the New York Saturday Press]." New York Saturday Press, June 16, 1860, 1, 4.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

Two sisters, Lizzie and Belle, see the rest of their family members die. The older sister watches over her beautiful younger sister, and is jealous of the man courting her. Another woman steals the man's heart on the eve of the wedding, breaking Belle's heart. Lizzie finds the man and kills him in retaliation.